Zhang Mingwu pursued his post-doctoral studies in Kyushu University. As a distinguished professor of Hubei Provincal “Chu Tian Scholar Plan”, he is appointed as the vice dean of School of Computer Science, HBUT, and director of Institute of Big Date Security and Privacy Protection Technology Research. He is a senior member of China Computer Federation and of China Association for Cryptologic Research, and a member of Association for Computing Machinery, of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and of International Association for Cryptologic Research.

Supported by Foreign Special Research Fellow Program of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2010-2012), he pursued his post-doctoral studies and academic research in Institute of Mathematics and Physics and Institute of Industrial Mathematics of Kyushu University. He was elected as the 4th group of “Thousand, Hundred, Ten Project” cultivation objects in Guangdong province (2006-2010), besides, he was also elected as Distinguished Young Talents in Higher Education of Guangdong province (2008-2009). In 2013, he was appointed as distinguished professor of Hubei Provincial “Chu Tian Scholar Plan”. His main research direction contains: Information Security and Privacy Protection in Open Network, Leakage-Resilient Security Protocol, and Big Data Security and Privacy.

Prof. Zhang has presided 15 science research programs including National Natural Science Foundation program. He is the editorial board member for a number of international academic journals, the invited reviewer of over 20 international academic journals, and the committee member of the organization committee and program committee of more than 10 international academic journals. Recently, he has obtained the 2nd prize of Progress in Science & Technology of Hubei Province (1 time), and the 3rd prize of Natural Science of Hubei Province (1 time). He has applied for 12 patents (among which 9 are authorized), and obtained 8 software copyright. What’s more, he has published 1 academic monograph and 3 textbooks. He has also published over 70 academic papers in international and domestic academic journals and conferences, among which 20 has been cited by SCI and 40 cited by EI.